Harbor Seals (P. vitulina), 1:2 observation to background ratio, all covariates, evaluated using all metrics

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	roc_auc	boyce_cont	brier_class	tss_max
rf	0.8842975	0.9545732	0.9404621	0.0886146	0.7780488
bt	0.8842975	0.9518293	0.8467828	0.2077532	0.8030488
maxnet	0.8842975	0.9350610	0.8919589	0.1031285	0.7292683
gam	0.8677686	0.9237805	0.9057029	0.0951664	0.7786585
glm	0.8429752	0.9140244	0.8639486	0.1107249	0.6923780

Variable Importance